It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

I reach up and pat them both on the head. "Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd be kissing him every chance you had, too.

I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

Do not deny the impact your life can have on others.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

Have faith in yourself. Think yes not no. Live life to the full. Never give up.

In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.